Newman

The Disney plane was previously in the "Care-antee" livery designed by an employee. That livery (and the commitment to not do airline type things like charge for extra bags, etc...) didn't last long before Executives decided it needed to go. There was some panic about the expense of repainting an almost new livery, so executives toyed with options including the possibility of temporarily parking the aircraft when Disney came to the rescue proposing the idea of having WestJet paint an aircraft in a Disney livery with Disney covering the cost.

The Saretsky era ushered in an influx of American executives (EVP/VP) and the beginnings of a less cooperative/more combative relationship with the employee group. I clearly recall a meeting with one of the American EVP's in 2012, who lamented that a particular initiative was taking time going through WestJetty channels to gain buy in from frontline employees and flat out said we wouldn't be doing that anymore and if they don't like it, they can unionize. It was all down hill from there.

On the plus side, 5 or 6 different people padded their resume with President or CEO titles thanks to Jetlines.